Livelihood And Romance Quotes

#1. Thus old men are honoured with a particular respect, yet all the rest fare as well as they. Both dinner and supper are begun with some lecture of morality that is read to them; but it is so short that it is not tedious nor uneasy to them to hear it.

Thomas More

#2. The grace of God is dangerous. It's lavish, excessive, outrageous, and scandalous. God's grace is ridiculously inclusive. Apparently God doesn't care who He loves. He is not very careful about the people He calls His friends or the people He calls His church.

Mike Yaconelli

#3. since I know for a fact that her class had been in the physics labs when Mr. Fibs got attacked by the bees he thought he'd genetically modified to obey commands from a whistle. (Turns out they only respond to the voice of James Earl Jones.)

Ally Carter

#4. I'd like to be a dog. Dogs are nice. They can sleep any time, they wag their tails and on top of that they can get stroked all the time.

Emmanuel Petit

#5. His idea of a satisfying outdoor experience had been to saunter out onto the terrace of a European hotel to smoke cigars and drink brandy.

Neal Stephenson

#6. One of God's main purposes for your life is to fill you with so much of His love that it overflows onto others.

Stormie O'martian

#7. When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it's because a little piece gets lost
the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. the whole shape has changed.

David Levithan

#8. A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.

Ai Weiwei

#9. Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games.

Pele

#10. It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.

Doris Lessing

#11. Police business," he said almost gently, "is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what we get - and we get things like this.

Raymond Chandler

#12. What could I offer the local bad boy except my livelihood? Oh, I know. My body or my planes! Why didn't I think of that? Would you have preferred that I offer him my body, Nic, because I sure as hell wasn't going to sign over either of my planes!

Sharon K. Garner

#13. You have to realize that everyone in a band is all more or less together, and everyone has their own niche, and some people lead in some ways, and some people lead in others.

Mick Jagger

#14. If someone asks me where I bought something I'm wearing, I will usually say I don't remember.

Megan Boyle

#15. I like bothering people and stirring things up.

Tim Daly

#16. You have no idea of the women I didn't marry.

Artie Shaw